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Can't parse this lot.
1a. Very quickly, have you had to be introduced to Stella's Flora? (4-5)
Post-haste?
31a. Shame how two Verona households are so alike (9):
Indignity?
1d. Part of course about writing poetry initially calls for a resort (4,7).
Palm Springs?

And no idea about this one:
48d. In peace, picking up one board game or another (5).
I've got s-o-i

31a: indignity = shame (def)
from Romeo and Juliet…
Two households, both alike in dignity

31a the play starts " ...two households alike in dignity...."

48d shogi ... go is a board game

1d MS is the writing (manuscript) + P (poetry initially)
rings = calls

1d + pal = lap about

1a post haste

Stella (Gibbons) author of Cold Comfot Farm had a character Flora Poste.
Poste + has t(o)

correction:

Have you - hast

I think this parses better

post hast e

Thanks all.
I think 1a is pretty mean, having to know that Stella refers to Stella Gibbons, and then having to be familiar with the character from Cold Comfort Farm.